Greed & criminality destroys Povernei 1-3...

Greed, corruption and lies have once more destroyed a house in Bucharest which tonight lies in almost complete ruins. Not just any house, but the beautiful str Povernei 1-3.

(Photo above B365.ro) Built in 1891 by architect William Blast, this lovely, elegant house was once home to Teodor Rosetti-Soleşti, former prime minister. Please see more information on the house and the shamefully outrageous demolition HERE on Silvia Colfescu's blog, Istorioare Bucurestene.

The building was owned by Project Bucharest, and a monstrous office complex (by Alecsandri Estates) will be constructed in its place. This 120 year old villa was a classified historical monument, and the almost total demolition would not have been possible without the endorsement of the Ministry of Culture and Bucharest's City Hall. I keep saying 'shame! shame!' and it's so mild. Shame has no meaning in Bucharest anymore. People do as they want when they want through sheer greed, for glory and with megalomanic and lightening speed. They circumnavigate the law or ride roughshod straight over it. They lie, they cheat, they threaten, they destroy. They are above the law and so damn arrogant they consider themselves capable of anything... and so far they have been, because they are allowed to do exactly as they please whether the abuses committed pertain to human rights, patrimony or the law in general.

(Photo: B365.ro) And what about the average Bucharestean?? Passive. Silent. Indifferent. Shaaaaaaaaaaaame!!!! Until it's YOUR property and YOUR home....

God bless those trying to fight this. They are a minority, a small handful of brave and courageous people. They are not ONLY fighting City Hall and the scurge within it but also the canker of a people who no longer care about anything but the goings-on within their own four walls. Utterly sickening.

Comments

[Fedora]

I'm not sure it matters much where people are from. Even thise born in the city who have lived there all their lives couldn't give a flying nut about what's going on....it's the disease of passivity and asa e... ce pot se fac? Nothing, sitting on backsides watching absurdities on TV. People can do what those battling almost alone are doing. They can write, share articles, leave comments on blogs and articles, go to protests (there are protests but so badly attended they hardly make the vaguest ripple) and change the way they vote, to start with.... but they won't because Bucaresteans are profoundly handicapped. They keep eyes down and only move an inch or two when THEIR property is menaced, when it touches THEM personally. Then we have the aoleu and the vai de mine... it's a disgrace. The country and its government are a disgrace, Cith Hall and the architects of Romania are a PROFOUND disgrace and the attitude is so beyond disgracefup that I can't even find the words...

[Marina]

How many times do we have to be outraged by what's happening in that city? And why are we, people who have left Romania tens of years ago, more angry than people living in that unfortunate city? Maybe because we were born there unlike the hundreds of thousands who have been brought from the countryside by the communist regime or the hordes who continue to invade the city for the past 20 years. What does this "Lumpenproletariat" know about the history of Bucharest: NOTHING

[MW]

You're right, Valentin. And not just by thieves. By bandits, for they are lawless. And apart from that, they are intelligent (in the most negative way) for they know exactly how to abuse the law, how to manipulate it, how to cheat it...and justice in Ro is purchasable, buyable, as one buys a bar of soap, one buys the law. It is stinking, it is rotten, it is necrotic. Along with many other systems in Ro - health, education... without these systems, a country dies. Romania is dying indeed. Get out if you can.

[valentin]

I feel hopless.For the first time. Nobody is obeying the law, and to go like a thief to destroy a monument during the night, means we live in a country of thieves. Some condemn those who draw gratiffy on walls and there is even jail for them. Is their deed worse than what happened in Povernei, where the house was demolished during the night, without any legal act (no that I have any doubt that the papers would have been released)?. I do feel hopeless, for this is a country run by thieves.